Work | Jason E. Shao

Tim Bray Not Sure About OpenID

Feb

27

2007

ongoing Â· OpenID The Real Problem Â· Of course, out there in the enterprise space where most of Sunâ€™s customers live, they think about identity problems at an entirely different level. Single-sign-on seems like a little and not terribly interesting piece of the problem. They lose sleep at night over â€œAttribute Exchangeâ€; once you have ...

Strange love for passwords

Feb

26

2007

Strange love for passwords Now, I’m not going to speculate too far into the future, to a time when Visa displaces the DMV or passport agency as issuer of authoritative international credentials for every kind of identification and authentication. However, there are no other entities that have Visa and MasterCard’s topical ubiquity and influence.Â They’ve ...

Netvibes Promises Cross-Platform Widget Compatibility

Feb

21

2007

Netvibes Promises Cross-Platform Widget Compatibility Today at the Future of Web Apps conference in London, Netvibes founder Tariq Krim announced that their upcoming â€œCorianderâ€ release will do just that. Once launched, any widget created for Netvibes, Krim says, will work on the Vista, Google, Mac and Opera platforms as well. Support for Yahoo Widgets and ...

uP3 Day 6: More Layouts & GAPS

Dec

15

2006

Published lots of portlets… edited lots of data.xml… really need a publishing tool. 🙂 Faizan’s been struggling all day without to much traction working on getting GAPS working – looks like some kinks between the updated PersonDirectory code and changes Dan’s been making on GAPS as the API evolves. I saw he posted last night ...

uP3 Day 5: More Person Directory & Data.xml Channel Publishing

Dec

15

2006

Faizan’s PersonDirectory changes didn’t seem to take on my machine — not sure why, maybe the UserAttributesPortlet got patched, and I don’t have the most current version? I think he started looking at GAPS at home, but was running into some problems. I’m still looking at migrating our template user into the portal framework. For ...